Global Left Midweek - December 12, 2018
- Greece: How Crete Kicked Out Golden Dawn
- Iran: Our Bodies Are a Battleground
- Unravelling of the Palestinian National Movement
- The Current Leaders Are an Obstacle To the Unification of Africa
- Spain Against Itself
- In Buenos Aires, All Roads Lead To Resistance
- To Understand the ‘Yellow Vests’, Look To French Guiana
- More News About the Vests
Greece: How Crete Kicked Out Golden Dawn
Jessica Bateman / The Guardian (London)
Teachers and activists in Heraklion explain how they drove the ultra-nationalist, far-right Greek party from the island.
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Iran: Our Bodies Are a Battleground
Annahita Moradi / Red Pepper (London)
Today, a large population of Iranians are displaying civil disobedience. Taking to the streets with their hair illegally on show, they aren’t calling for a hijab ban. But the opposite: the freedom of choice.
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Unravelling of the Palestinian National Movement
Osama Al Sharif / Gulf News (Dubai)
The deepening Fatah-Hamas rift and US-Israel moves have left people to face the vicious occupation on their own.
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The Current Leaders Are an Obstacle To the Unification of Africa
Horace G. Campbell / Pambazuka News (Oxford)
Africa needs a new alliance of traders, workers, small farmers, progressive students, cultural artists and religious leaders to create a new movement for unification and freedom.
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Spain Against Itself
Jorge Tamames / Jacobin (New York)
Over the last decade, the emergence of the indignados movement, Podemos, and Catalonia’s bid for independence have significantly eroded the post-Franco order’s legitimacy.
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In Buenos Aires, All Roads Lead To Resistance
Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)
Activists from across Latin America and the world marched to reject the G20 Summit.
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To Understand the ‘Yellow Vests’, Look To French Guiana
Manu Saadia / Washington Post
During the last French presidential campaign, a group of grass-roots activists in Guiana began demonstrating against the sale of a nonprofit hospital to a private operator. As its support widened among the population, the movement and its leaders broadened the scope of their demands.
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More News About the Vests
John Mullen / die Linke Berlin Internationals
France is not on the edge of a revolutionary situation or of a civil war. But the movement is on the rise, and very determined.